Two of Five Women Report Sexual or Physical Assault

According to the 1998 Commonwealth Fund Survey of Women's Health, nearly two of every five women have been physically or sexually assaulted, either in childhood or in their adult lives.

In all, 39% of women reported that they had been either raped, sexually assaulted, or physically abused at some point in their lives. Violence against women crossing all income, ethnic, and demographic lines, but the incidence of violence attacks was slightly greater among poor women.

Study results were based on interviews conducted with 2,011 women between May 7 and November 10, 1998. Louis Harris and Associates administered the survey, which has an error margin of plus or minus 3 points.

1/27/2016 Taiwan Elects First Woman President - In a landslide victory, the leader of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Tsai Ing-wen won the country's presidential election, becoming the first woman in Taiwan's history to hold the position.
Emphasizing her party's commitment to maintaining Taiwan's independence from China, Tsai won over young voters eager to usher in a political changing of the guard following some 70 years of dominance by the pro-Chinese unification party, the Kuomintang (KMT), chaired by presidential opponent Eric Chu. . . .